#PLEK12 And Other Thoughts

Hello world,

I am involved in a massively online open class, and I'm learning to view blogs, twitter, and other electronic communication tools as a personal learning environment of sorts. I am very new to this, and I am feeling a little anxious about being "out there" on the internet in a more open way than I have ever been in the past.

I titled my blog site "blogging, and tweeting, and diets oh my" (even though I really don't know what grammar/punctuation to use for that phrase) as an obvious reference to The Wizard of Oz.  First, I was trying to be clever.  But that line in the film is also at a point where Dorothy and her friends were entering a scary world, and they didn't know what they would find. I am in that situation as we speak... Though I have used email and facebook for a long time, I have never been very open in the online world. (I rarely even post statuses in facebook).  As to the topics, I included blogging and tweeting because that is what I'm learning about. I included diets because that has been a main area of online community usage that I have experienced in the past. I have joined many online discussion groups focused on diets and losing weight.... So it's fitting that I include that topic because it has been a major point of reference for me in posting online.

I am using the #PLEK12 tag because I think it will be useful in tying to my twitter account posts. Though I'm really not sure of the interlinking between all these online avenues. I guess I will learn more about that soon.

Allison